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Cogwork Grinder

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Artifact Creature — Construct

CNSConspiracy#57rare
Foil
Border
black
Frame
2003
Pull rate
~1 in 61–4020
Illustrator
Jasper Sandner
Found in
Conspiracy Booster Pack
Printings1
CommanderLegalModernNot legalStandardNot legal
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlNot legal
CommanderLegal
Competitive BrawlNot legal
DuelLegal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorNot legal
HistoricNot legal
LegacyLegal
ModernNot legal
OathbreakerLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperNot legal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
PennyNot legal
PioneerNot legal
PreDHNot legal
PremodernNot legal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessNot legal
Tiny LeadersNot legal
VintageLegal
Draft this card face up. As you draft a card, you may remove it from the draft face down. (Those cards aren't in your card pool.) This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the number of cards you removed from the draft with cards named Cogwork Grinder.
0/0

Plays as: Counter Placer

Market · per finishspark updated 15h ago · prices as of 2026-07-12
Nonfoil+0.0%
$0.26
$0.08 low$0.05 gap
Foil
$0.27 low$0.11 gap
Cheapest playable copy$0.26· across 1 printing

Rulings

6 · latest May 29, 2014 · one tap opens all
  • WotCMay 29, 2014

    A card that is removed from the draft isn't in any player's card pool. That card can't be played in any games associated with that draft.

  • WotCMay 29, 2014

    If a Cogwork Grinder owned by another player enters the battlefield under your control, the number of counters it enters with will be based on the number of cards you've removed from the draft with Cogwork Grinders, not the number its owner removed. Unless you also drafted Cogwork Grinder, this will be 0.

  • WotCMay 29, 2014

    If you draft multiple Cogwork Grinders, the value for X will be the same for each of them. It doesn't matter that some of the removed cards may have been removed before you drafted the second Cogwork Grinder, for example.

  • WotCMay 29, 2014

    No other player may look at the cards you remove from the draft (unless Cogwork Spy allows a player to).

  • WotCMay 29, 2014

    You can't remove cards from the draft that you've already drafted. Only cards drafted after you draft Cogwork Grinder may be removed this way.

  • WotCMay 29, 2014

    You still draft the card that you remove. This may matter if an ability refers to "the next card you draft" or similar. If that card instructs you to draft it face up, do so, then turn it face down as you remove it. If that card instructs you to reveal it as you draft it and then perform additional actions, perform those actions before turning the card face down and removing it from the draft.